Mrs. Charles Cowman, Lettie Burd Cowman (1870-1960), is the author of my favorite devotional Streams in the Desert. Her moving insights have challenge and encouraged me for years. (Click image to learn more about here and view today's devotional - updated daily.)

Streams in the Desert L.B. Cowman - great devotional book!! I love this! I was just thinking this morning that reading God's word in this modern day can be viewed like reading his email to you. It's a letter written just for you. How about checking your email in God's Word.

L.B. Cowman - Wife of Rev. Charles Cowman, founder of the Oriental Missionary Society. Serving as missionaries for 20 yrs. her husbands failing health forced them to return to the states. Streams in the Desert was complied from various sermons, readings, writings, and poetry she had read over the years. It remains immensely popular with at least 19 editions printed to date.